People with knowledge of the case told The Washington Post that the victim had been receiving treatment at the Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center when he died two weeks ago. The victim has still not been identified.

CDC tests showed that the donor also died of rabies, so the agency is working with public health officials and health care facilities to investigate how that person may have gotten the virus.

Three other people outside Maryland received organs from that same donor, who was from Florida, The Post report showed. There's no word yet on the conditions of those patients, but CDC officials said they're working to assess and treat those people, as well as trying to identify anyone else who may have been exposed.

DHMH officials said the type of rabies virus found in the donor and recipient was of raccoon origin. In the U.S., since testing by strain has been available, only one person other than the Maryland patient and the organ donor is known to have died from that strain of rabies virus, officials said.

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